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Kenosha Kid

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kenoshakid.bandcamp.com <- IF YOU CARE GO THERE. For nearly 20 years, Athens, GA-based guitarist and composer Dan Nettles has fronted the ever-changing post-genre collective known as Kenosha Kid, named after an elusive trope from Thomas Pynchon's novel Gravity’s Rainbow. Spanning from electric jazz, indie rock, country, folk and abstract sound-design to points far beyond, the music of Kenosha Kid reaches another level of expressive, exploratory richness with October Book.

Facing deep dilemmas about how to make, share and find fulfillment in music, Nettles turned inward from the shut-down world and cannonballed into an immersive task — write one new song per day throughout October 2020, 31 songs in all. The final result is 3 LPs of new instrumental music, an epic song cycle woven around two contrasting ideas: “What can I do alone, all by myself?” and “What can I do to reconnect with my community?”

In making October Book Nettles flourishes in both respects. He distilled a wealth of new material plumbed from introspection, and later reunites old friends, current neighbors, bandmates from European touring projects, and veterans of previous Kenosha Kid incarnations into a veritable connect-the-dots of Nettles’ career, past and present. In effect he assembled a succession of dream bands, until the music spanned a wondrously wide gamut of sounds and moods...

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